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Merryville is located at (30.753916, -93.536991 U.S. Route 190 passes through the community, leading north and east 19 miles (31 km) to DeRidder, the parish seat, and west 18 miles (29 km) to Newton, Texas.
Since it erupted on Aug. 22 in a wooded pine plantation, the fire has burned more than 31,000 forested acres and caused "devastating damage" to more than 20 homes and structures east of Merryville ...
Louisiana newspapers, 1794-1940: a union list of Louisiana newspaper files available in offices of publishers, libraries, and private collections in Louisiana. Louisiana State University – via HathiTrust. John S. Kendall (1946). "New Orleans Newspapermen of Yesterday". Louisiana Historical Quarterly. 29.
Merryville High School closed, and a high school in Singer, Louisiana was closed. [7] Several state routes across Beauregard Parish were closed, including portions of Louisiana highways 27, 110, and 389. [8] [9] In DeRidder, nursing homes were evacuated as a precaution due to the fast-moving Tiger Island fire. [6]
Louisiana has recorded an unprecedented amount of wildfires in August, forcing multiple southwestern towns to evacuate Thursday and state officials to implement a burn ban.
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The first African American newspaper in Louisiana was L'Union, a French-language newspaper launched in 1862. [1] [2] The first daily African American newspaper in Louisiana, and in the entire country, came two years later with La Tribune de la Nouvelle-Orléans. [3] [4]
It is based in Lafayette [1] and is the largest newspaper chain by number of publications in the state. [2] The chain began in 1963, when Braxton "B.I." Moody III purchased The Rayne Acadian-Tribune and The Church Point News for $100,000. [3] [4] The company was incorporated as Louisiana State Newspapers in 1973. [5]